weigh up

English

Verb

weigh up (third-person singular simple present weighs up, present participle weighing up, simple past and past participle weighed up)

1. To assess a person or situation

   She looked at him carefully, trying to weigh him up. Was he really telling the truth?

Translations

assess a situation

• Dutch: inschatten (nl), peilen (nl)
• Japanese: 評価する (hyōka suru)
• Maori: whakaraupeka
• Serbo-Croatian: procijéniti (sh) pf (проције́нити), procjenjívati (sh) pf (процјењи́вати)
• Spanish: sopesar (es)

See also

• size up